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Ms CollMatthews, B.

Brander MatthewsPapers, 1827-196720 linear feet (ca. 14,500 items in 41 boxes and 2 flatboxes)

Biography: James Brander Matthews was born in New Orleans on February 21, 1852 to Edward and Virginia Brander Matthews. He received a baccalaureate from Columbia University in 1871 and a law degree in 1873. That year, he married Ada Smith an English actress. He earned a Master of Arts in Literature at Columbia University in 1874 and turned to writing to support his family. Matthews began by reviewing plays and eventually became a respected author of novels, plays, short stories, poems, essays, and biographies. He was a frequent contributor to periodicals. He began lecturing at Columbia University in the English Department in 1892 and was appointed Professor of Dramatic Literature in 1900, the first such professorship established in the United States. Matthews established the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia in 1911, the first such museum in the United States. He died at age seventy-five on March 31, 1929.

Summary: The Brander Matthews Collection spans the dates 1827 to 1927 with most of the material dating from 1872 to 1924. It is divided into 5 series: Cataloged Correspondence, Writings, Notes, Works by Others, and Personal files. The collection contains letters, manuscripts, typescripts, clippings, articles, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Some of the material, especially the newspaper clippings, is very brittle and fragile.

Finding Aids: Contents list, 15 pages.

Restrictions on Access: Available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects.

Restrictions on Use: Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Provenance: Gift of Brander Matthews, 1912-1928; Harold G. Henderson, 1951; and Jeanne Welcher Kleinfield, 1978.

Processing History: Revised by G. Cannan, August 2000

Microfilm Information: A. P. Terhune, James Bryce and Royal Cortissoz cataloged correspondence are on microfillm

Physical Loaction: In sequence

Related Manuscript Collections: Dramatic Museum; Columbia University. Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum

RLIN ID: 89-A586

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I. Cataloged Correspondence, 1876-1926 10 linear ft.

Matthews was an influential figure in the literary and dramatic worlds of New York, Paris, and London in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. Among his correspondents represented in the collection are William Archer, Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Augustin Daly, Austin Dobson, Hamlin Garland, Bronson Howard, William Dean Howells, Henry Cabot Lodge and other prominent figures from the worlds of theater, literature, politics and society.

Box 1 Abbey, Edwin Austin

Abbey, Mary Gertrude (Mrs.E.A.) Abdullah, AchmedAbot, E Adams, Charles FrancisAdams, HerbertAinger, AlfredAlden, Henry MillsAldrich, Lilian Woodmsn (Mrs.T.B.)Aldrich, Thomas BaileyAlexander, John W. Ames, WinthropAmory, MathildaAnderson, Edward PretotAnglin, MargaretAppleton, George J. Appleton, William WorthenArcher, CharlesArcher, WilliamArliss, George

Box 2Arliss, George (cont.)Arrowsmith, J.W. Ashby-Sterry, JosephAtherton, GertrudeAubert, LouisAyres, Harry MorganBacheller, IrvingBaker, Franklin T. Baker, George PierceBaldensperger, FernandBaldwin, Charles M. Baldwin, Charles SearsBalestier, WolcottBangs, John KendrickBarnard,CharlesBarnard, Frederick Augustus PorterBarr, Amelia EdithBarrett, LawrenceBashford, G. FredBassett, John D.Bates, BlancheBeckett., Harry

Beckwith, CarolBeer, ThomasBeers, Henry AugustinBelasco, DavidBell, Edward HamiltonBelmont, AugustBelmont, Eleanor RobsonBenrimo, Joseph Henry McAlpinBenson, Sir Francis RobertBernard, E.G. (Mrs. Wm. Bayle)Besant, MaryBesant, WalterBigelow, JohnBikle', Lucy Leffingwell Cable (Mrs.

Henry Wolfe)Bishop, Joseph BucklinBishop, William HenryBispham, DavidBlaikie, J.A.Blashfield, Edwin HowlandBlinn, HolbrookBois, JulesBok, Edward W.Booth, AgnesBooth, EdwinBosworth, HobartBoucicault, DionBourchier, ArthurBoyeson, Hjalmar Hjorth

Box 3Boyeson, Hjalmar Hjorth (cont.)Bradford, GamalielBradley, Andrew CecilBrady, William A. Brandes, GeorgeBrewster, William TenneyBridges, Monica Waterhouse

(Mrs.Robert)Bridgman, Walter R.Brieux, EugeneBriggs, Alanson TuthillBrinton, Daniel GarrisonBroadhurst, Thomas W. Brookfield, Jane Octavia (Mrs. Elton)

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Brooks, JosephBrown, HenryBrown, Henry CollinsBrownell, William CrareyBrunetiere, FerdinandBrunner, Arnold W. Bryce, JamesBuel, Clarence CloughBunner, Henry Cuyler

See also 812M43S6,Scrapbook of Letters from H.C. Bunner

Burlinghame, Edward LivermoreBurroughs, John(1837-1921)Burton, RichardButcher, Samuel HenryButler, BenjaminButler, Nicholas MurrayCable,George WashingtonCalkins, Ernest ElmoCalvert, LouisCanby, Henry SeidelCarleton, WillCarman, BlissCarnegie, AndrewCarnegie, Mrs. Louis W.Carr, Joseph William ComynsCarvell, G.F.Casey, Francis de SalesCawein, MadisonChadwick, George WhitefieldChambers, Sir Edmund KercheverChambers, Raymond WilsonChandler, Frank Wadleigh

Box 4Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Choate, Joseph H.Church, William ConantChurchill, WinstonClaretie, JulesClark, Joseph Ignatius ConstantineClaxton, KateClemens., Olivia Langdon (Mrs.

Samuel L.) Clemens, Samuel L. Cobb, Irvin S. Coburn, Charles Coghlan, Charles Francis Coleman, John Coles, J. Ackermn Colvin, Sidney Conkling, Roscoe Conway, Hart Conway, Martin

Conway, Moncure D. Coogan, James J. Coombes, George J. Copeaux, Jacques Coquelin, Benoit Constant

Box 5Corbin, JohnCortissoz, RoyalCox, KenyanCoxon, Ethel Crane, Ella Chloe Myers (Mrs.Wm.H.)Crane, StephenCrane, William H.Crawford, F. Marion Crolly, C.C.Crossman, Henrietta Crothers, Samuel McChordCurtis, Charles G. Cushing, Charles P.Dacre, Arthur Daley, Augustin Davenport, Eva Davenport, Harry Davis, Richard Harding DeForest, John William DeKay, Charles deKoven, Reginald DeMille, Anna George DeMille, William C. DeVinne, Theodore L. Dickson, Frederick S. Dillingham, Charles BDobson, Alban Dobson, Austin

Box 6Dobson, Augusta-Mary Rachel Dobson, Frances Mary

Beardmore(Mrs. Austin)Dodd, Mead & Co. Dole, Nathan H.Donnay, MauriceDow, David McKenzie Drew, JohnDrisler, HenryDufferin and Ava, Frederick TempleDyas, AdaEaton, Walter P.Eddy, Frederick B.Edson, C.L.Edwards, Hy (Harry) Egan, Maurice FrancisEggleston, EdwardEggleston, George Cary

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Elliott, MaxineEnglish, Thomas DunnEthel, AgnesFaversham, WilliamFawcett, EdgarFelton, Cornelius ConwayFerrar, JohnField, EugeneField, KateField, Roswell MartinField, William B. Osgood

Box 7Finch, Francis Miles Fish, StuyvesantFiske, Minnie Maddern Fitch, Clyde Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, IanForbes-Robertson, JohnstonFord, James L.Ford, MaryFord, Paul Leicester Fox, John, Jr.Frantzius, Fritz vonFrawley, T. DanielFrench, Daniel ChesterFrench, Lillie HamiltonFrench, Samuel Frohman, Daniel Furness, Horace Howard, Jr.Garland, Hamlin

Box 8Garland, Hamlin (cont.)Garrison, EllaGayley, Charles MillsGeorge, GraceGeorge, RobertGiddings, Franklin H.Gilbert, CassGilder, Helena deKay (Mrs.Rochard

Watson) Gilder, Jeannette L.Gilder, Joseph B.Gilder, Richard WatsonGiles, PeterGillette, WilliamGilmare, FrankGilman, Charlotte Perkins StetsonGilman, Daniel CoitGodfrey, Walter H.Godkin, Edwin LawrenceGodwin, Edward William

Godwin, HaroldGoodell, Thomas D.Goodman, Jules EckertGoodwin, Nathaniel CarlGosse, EdmundGottheil, RichardGrant, RobertGranville-Baker, HarleyGraves, HenryGray, Agnes E.Greene, Francis V.Greenslet, FerrisGreet, BenGrein, James ThomasGrismer, Joseph RhodeGrundy, SydneyGuild, Thatcher HowlandGuiterman, ArthurGuthrie, AnsteyHabberton, JohnHackett, James KHadley, Arthur Twi@Hagen, Claude L.Haggard, RiderHake, Egmont A.Hale, Edward EverettHall, Stanley G.Hamilton, Clayton

Box 9Hamilton, Clayton (cont.)Hampden, Walter Hankin, St. JohnHanlon, George Hapgood, Norman Harle, Hugh C. Harper, Joseph HenryHarrigan, EdwardHarrigan, Mrs. EdwardHarris, Joel ChandlerHart, Albert BushnellHartmann, Sadakichi Harvey, George Brinton McClellanHastings, ThomasHazleton, George C.Henley, William ErnestHerfor, OliverHerrick, RobertHibbard, GeorgeHibben, John GrierHigginson, Margaret W.Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Hinman, RussellHitchcock, RipleyHolland, David B.

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Holland, E.M.Holmes, Oliver WendellHolt, HenryHood, WilliamHooker, BrianHoudini, Harry

Box 10Howard, BronsonHoward, SidneyHowe, Edgar WatsonHowe, Julia WardHowells, John MeadHowells, MildredHoyt, Charles Howells, William Dean

Box 11Howells, William Dean (cont.)Hughes, RupertHumphreys, Alex C.Huneker, James GordonHunt, T.F.Hunt, WilliamHuntington, Archer M.Hutchinson, ThomasHutton, Eleanor V.Hutton, LawrenceIngersoll, ErnestIngersoll, WilliamIreland, AlexanderIreland, Joseph N.Irving, HenryIrving, LawrenceIrwin, WallaceIrwin, WillJagemann, Hans Carl Gunter vonJames, HenryJames, Louis L.Janvier, Catharine A.Jerome, William T.Jesperson, OttoJessop, George H.Jewett, SaraJohnson, Robert UnderwoodJohnson, RossiterJohnson, Willard D.Jones, Henry Arthur

Box 12Jones, Henry Arthur (cont.)Jones, RichardJones, Robert EdmundJusserand, Jean JulesKeep, Elizabeth

Keppel, Frederick P.Kester., Paul Kimball, Arthur R.Kinnaird, Arthur FitzgeraldKipling, Caroline (Mrs. Rudyard)Kipling, ElsieKipling, Rudyard

Box 13Kirk, John FosterKlaw, MarcKlein, CharlesKure, B.LaFarge, JohnLaFollette, RobertLampton, William J.Lang, AndrewLanigan, George ThomasLanson, GustaveLathrop, George ParsonsLawrence, William JohnLawrence, William WitherleLearned, WalterLee, SidneyLefevre, EdwinLeGallienne, RichardLeMoyne, Sarah CowellLewis, JamesLocker-Lampson, FrederickLocker-Lampson, Hannah JaneLodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)

Box 14Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)

(cont.)Loftie, William JohnLogan, CeliaLong, John L.Longman, Charles JamesLongmans, Green & Co.Lounsbury, Thomas RaynesfordLow, Seth

Box 15Low, Seth (cont.)Lowe, Robert A.Lowell, A LawrenceLowell, SydneyLudemann, AlfredLummis, Charles F.Mabie, Hamilton WrightMacalister, DonaldMcCutcheon, George BarrMcClellan, George BrintonMacDowell, Edward

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McDowell, Henry BardenMcIlvaine, Clarence W.MacKay, Clarence H.Mackay, Frank F.MacKaye, PercyMcMahon, UnaMcMaster, John B.McVicker, J.H.Magnus, JulianMagruder, JuliaMahan, Alfred ThayerMalevinsky, Moses L.Malone, John T.Manley, John M.Mantle, BurnsMantzius, KarlMarbury, ElizabethMarks, Stacy H.Marquis, DonMarshall, Henry R.Martin, Edward SandfordMartin-Harvey, JohnMassenet, JulesMasson, FrederickMasson, Thomas L.Matthews, Ada S. (Mrs. Brander)Matthews, Brander

Box 16Matthews, Edith V. BranderMaurice, Arthur BartlettMaxim, HudsonMayfield, John S.Mayo, FrankMeeks, RaymondMencken, Henry LouisMerrill, StuartMerwin, SamuelMeyer, PaulMeynall, PercyMiddleton, GeorgeMiller, HenryMillet, Francis DavisMitchell, GrantMitchell, John AmesMitchell, Langdon E.Mitchell, Silas WeirModerwell, Hiram KellyModjeska, HelenaMonkhouse, CosmoMonval, LeonMorange, Edward A.Morazzoni, GiuseppeMore, Paul E.Morford, Henry

Morley, ChristopherMorris, Lloyd R.Morrison, CharlotteMorrison, LewisMoses, Montrose J.Mulholland, JohnMunroe, KirkMunsey, Frank A.Murray, GilbertMurray, JohnNakamura, KichizoNast, ThomasNeill, JamesNelson, (Miss) F. E.Nelson, Henry LoomisNeville, Henry GartsideNewbolt, HenryNewcomer, Alice K.Nicholson, MeredithNoguchi, YoneNorcross, John E.Norman, HenryOlin, Reeves and MontgomeryOpper, Frederick BurrOmonde, EugeneOsgood, James RipleyOwen, William F.Owens, John E.Ozawa YoshikuniPage, L.C. & Co.Page, Thomas NelsonPage, WalterPaine, Albert BigelowPalmer, Albert MarshmanPalmer, CourtlandtPalmer, FrederickParker, GilbertParker Henry TaylorParker, HoratioParlow, KathleenPayne, JohnPayne, WillPeck, Harry ThurstonPenfield, EdwardPennell, Elizabeth RobinsPerry, BlissPhelps, William Lyon

Box 17Phelps, William Lyon (cont.)Pinero, Arthur WingPinker, James B.Polk, William MecklenburgPollock, ChanningPollock, Sir Francis

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Pollock, Walter H.Pool, Frank J.Porter, Fitz JohnPorter, HoracePost, Louis F.Potter, Henry CodmanPotter, Paul MeredithPound, EzraPresbrey, Eugene W.Price, Thomas R.Putnam, George HavenPutnam, IrvingPyle, HowardRadin, Herman G.Rae, William FraserRandall, James RyderRaymond, John T.Reed. RolandRemington, FredericRennert, Hugo A.Repplier, AgnesRhodes, James F.Rice, Cale YoungRice, WallaceRichards, GrantRiggs, Arthur StanleyRiggs, Mrs. KateRoberts, MorleyRobson, StuartRoosevelt, Edith KermitRoosevelt, TheodoreRosenfeld, SydneyRosenthal, LudwigRoyce, JosephRuckstull, Fred WallintonRussell-Yorke, AnnieRussell, Sol SmithSadler, Sir Michael ErnestSaintsbury, GeorgeSaltus, EdgarSaltus, Francis S.Sangster, Margaret ElizabethSarasate y Navasues, Pablo Martin

MelitondeSarcey, FrancisqueSchauffler, Robert HavenSchertz, Helen Pitkin

Box 18Schoepel, AgnesScollard, ClintonScott, Fred NewtonScribner, CharlesSedgwick, Henry DwightSedgwick, William T.

Seymour, WilliamShackleford, JohnSheffauer Herman GeorgeSheridan Richard Brinsley (1809-88)Sherman, Frank DempsterSherman, Stuart P.Shipman, LouisShorey, PaulSimms, EdwardSkinner, OtisSladen, DouglasSloane, William MilliganSmith, C. AlphonsoSmith, Logan PearsallSmith, MunroeSnyder, Frank M.Sousa, John PhilipSpingarn, Joel EllisStanford, Sir Charles VilliersStedman, Edmund ClarenceStedman, LauraStimson, Frederick JessopStockton, Francis RichardStoddard, Charles WarrenStoddard, Francis HoveyStoker, BramStory, William WestmoreStratton-Porter, GeneStreet, JulianSturges, JonathanSturgis, RussellSutro, AlfredSymons, ArthurTaber, RobertTedder., Henry Richard Terhune, Albert PaysonTerhune,, Mary Virginia (Hawes) Thayer, William R.

Box 19Thayer, William R. (cont.)Thomas, A. E.Thomas, AugustusThompson, HenryThorndike, Ashley HoraceThorne, Charles R., Jr.Ticknor, Benjamin H.Tilley, ArthurTitherington, Richard HandsfieldTourgee, AimeeTownsend, HoraceTowse, John RankenTree, H. BeerbohmTrent, WilliamTwichell, Joseph M.

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Tyler, Moses CoitUnwin, T. FisherVan Dyke, HenryVan Dyke, John CharlesVedder, ElihuVezin, HermannViele, Herman KnickerbockerVillard, HenryWaddington, SamuelWalker, AlfredWalkley, Arthur BinghamWallack, ArthurWallack, LesterWard, Adolphus WilliamWard, Fannie Batchelder (Mrs. C.

Montagu)Ware, HelenWarfield, DavidWarner, Charles DudleyWarner, John E.Watson, Henry Brereton MarriottWelcker, AdairWells, CarolynWendell, BarrettWendell, Evert JansenWesterfield, PaulWheeler, Benjamin IdeWhiffen, BlancheWhiffen, Thomas

Box 20White, Andrew D.White, GleasonWhite, J. WilliamWhite, StanfordWhite, Stuart EdwardWhite, William AllenWhitman, WaltWhitridge, Lucy T.Wilde, PercivalWillard, Edward SmithWilliams, JamesWilliams, Thomas H.Wilson, FrancisWilson, WoodrowWilstach, Frank JennersWilstach, PaulWinter, JeffersonWinter, WilliamWister, OwenWoodberry, George E.Worthington, JohnWright, Frederich AmaziahYamamoto, Kuzaburo

Zola, Emile

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Writings, 1871-1923 3. 5 linear feet

This series contains notes, typescripts, contracts, book reviews, articles and clippings. The material is arranged chronologically within 9 subseries: Fiction, Plays, Verse, Biographies, Essays and Critiques, Pamphlets, Books edited, Introductions, Articles and Lectures.

Box 20 Bibliography

--Fiction Flatbox 233 Robert Bright, May 29, 1875 Scrapbook Vol. 1

Box 20 The Last Meeting (1885)A Secret of the Sea (1886)

Box 21 File 1) A Family Tree (1889-1890) With My Friends (1891) File 2) In the Vestibule Limited (1892) A Tale of Twenty Five Hours(1892),

written with George H. Jessop File 3) Tom Spaulding (1892) File 4) Story of a Story (1893) File 5) Vignettes of Manhattan (1894, 1921-1923) File 6) Royal Marine (1894) The Sin of the Father (1894) File 7) Tales of Fantasy and Fact (1896) File 8) His Father's Son (1896) File 9) Outlines in Local Color (1897) File 10) A Confident Tomorrow (1899)

(See also X812M43/P) File 11) Action and the Word (1900) File 12) Vistas of New York (1912)File 13) These Many Years (1917) File 14) Copyrights assigned by Harper and Brothers (1921) File 15) Notes for picaresque novel about New York

--Plays

Box 21 File 16) On Probation (1871)See also X812M43/M, Plays in 4 vol.

Box 22 File 1) On Probation (1889) File 2-3) Margery's Lovers (1884) File 4) The Partnership (1884), written with H. L. Bunner File 5) The Irish Brigade (1886) File 6-7) A Gold Mine (1887) File 8) This Picture and That (1887-1894) File 9) The Decision of the Court (1893) File 10) Notes for Nat Goodwin portrayal (May 19, 1898)

Box 23 File 1-2) Peter Stuyvesant (1899) File 3) The Selfish Mr. Selbourne (c.1904) File 4) High Spirits (1905) File 5) What Shall It Profit (1907) File 6-12) Undated/unpublished plays

--Verse

Box 24 File 1) Fugitives From Justice (1912), other verses

--Biographies

Box 24 File 2) Moliere: His Life and Works (1910) File 3) Shakespeare as a Playwright (1916)

--Essays and Criticism

Box 24 File 4) The Theatres of Paris (1880) File 5) French Dramatists (1881) File 6) Home Library (1883) [under the name Arthur Penn] File 7) Pen and Ink (1888) File 8) Americanisms and Briticisms (1892) File 9) Studies of the Stage (1894) File 10) Bookbinding Old and New (1895) File 11) Books and Playbooks (1895) File 12) Aspects of Fiction (1896) File 13) Introduction to American Literature (1893-1918)

Box 25 File 1) The Historical Novel; Parts of Speech (1901) File 2) Development of the Drama (1903) (See also X812M43/P5) File 3) Recreations of an Anthologist (1904) File 4) Inquiries and Opinion (1907) File 5) The American of the Future (1909) File 6) A Study of the Drama (1910) File 7) A Study of Versification (1911) File 8) Gateways to Literature (1912-1913) File 9) Book About the Theater (1916) File 10) Principles of Playmaking (1919) File 11) Essays on English (1921) File 12) Playwrights on Playmaking (1923) File 13) Tocsin of Revolt (1924) File 14) Essays idea

--Pamphlets

Box 25 The Philosophy of the Short Story (1901) Notes on Speechmaking (1901) American Characters (1906) On Acting (1914) Venetian Glass

--Books edited

Box 25 File 16) Comedies for Amateur Acting (1879) Poems of American Patriotism (1882) Actors and Actresses (1886) written with Laurence Hutton The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb (1892)

File 17) American Familiar Verse (1904) File 18) The Short Story (1908)

See also X812M43/S62, An editorial correspondence: Brander Matthews to Munro

Box 26 File 1) Lope de Vega's The New Art of Writing Plays (1914) Oxford Book of American Essays (1914)

Dramatic Museum, 2nd series (1915) Dramatic Museum, 3rd series (1916) Chief European Dramatists (1916)

File 2) Chief British Dramatists (1924) File 3) Poems About Players (1915)

--Introductions

Box 26 File 4) Chronological Outlines of American Literature (1894) by S. L. Whitcomb

--Articles and Lectures

Box 26 File 5) "Memories of Edwin Booth" "Cleopatra's Nose" "Critics and Creators" "Doctor Johnson as a Conversationalist" "The

Dunlap Society" (1914) File 6) "Grolier Club" "Howlers" File 7) "Negro Minstrelsy, The Decline and Fall of" "New York by a New

Yorker, Notes on" "President's English" "Punch and Judy" File 8) "Sayings of a Philosopher" "Show Business" "Sky-Pilots" "Spelling"

"The Swift Passing of the Humorists" "Twain, Memories of Mark" File 9) "Unanswerable Questions" "Variety Show" "What is Pure English?"

(1915) "Wine, Woman, and Money" File 10) Magazine articles (1881-1903)

Box 27 File 1-2) Magazine articles, 1904-1926 File 3-6) Lectures

Notes, 1872-1924 6 linear feet

This series is divided into three subseries: Author files, Subject files and Drama. It contains notes, clippings and articles on subjects in which Matthews had an interest. The notes are often written on small scraps of paper. Matthews would jot down any idea as soon as it occurred to him and throw it into a drawer "where I keep all such stray thoughts." Eventually he would organize these scraps and file them in envelopes. He considered each envelope "a story, or an essay in process of hatching." The files are arranged alphabetically within subseries.

--Author Files

Box 27 File 7) Aeschylus

Box 28 File 1) T. B. AldrichWilliam ArcherAristophanesEmile AugierJane Austen

File 2) BalzacBeaumarchaisBjornsonBoccaccio

File 3) BourgetCharlotte BronteBrowningWilliam Cullen Bryant

File 4) CalderonCellini

CervantesJames Fennimore CooperCorneilleGeorge W. Curtis

File 5) Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) File 6) Gabriele D'Annunzio

DaudetGeorges DaudinDefoe

Box 29 File 1) DickensDrydenDumas pereDumas fils

File 2) EchegarayMaria EdgeworthGeorge Eliot

File 3) Ralph Waldo Emerson File 4) Euripides File 5) Octave Feuillet

FieldingStephen FosterAnatole FranceBenjamin Franklin

File 6) Goethe; Goldsmith File 7) Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake; Thomas Hardy;

Bret Harte; Gerhart Hauptmann; Hawthorne File 8) Oliver Wendell Holmes

Box 30 File 1) William Dean Howells File 2) Victor Hugo File 3) Ibsen File 4) Washington Irving File 5) Henry James

Kotzebue; Madame de LafayetteLe Sage; LessingAbraham LincolnLope de Vega

File 6) Rudyard Kipling File 7) Longfellow File 8) James Russell Lowell

Box 31 File 1) James Russell Lowell File 2) Maeterlinck

MarivauxPhilip MassingerMaupassantMelvilleMeredith

File 3-5) Moliere

Box 32 File 1) Francis Parkman File 2) Stephen Phillips; Plautus File 3) Edgar Allan Poe File 4) Rabelais

Racine

RichardsonReynardCharles ReadeEdmond RostandSaint PierreVictorien Sardou

File 5) Walter Scott File 6) Eugene Scribe

SenecaGeorge Bernard ShawShakespeare

File 7-8) Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Box 33 File 1) SmolletSophoclesHerbert SpencerSterne; Robert Louis Stevenson

File 2) Harriet Beecher StoweHerman SudermannSwift; TerenceThackeray

File 3) ThoreauTolstoiTrollopeTurgenevVoltaireWagnerWalpole

File 4) Daniel WebsterWhitmanWhittierZola

--Subject Files

Includes articles, clippings, exams and notes

Box 33 File 5) Advertising and Posers File 6-7) American Literature File 8) American/British Relations; Americans on Guard; Anecdotes

Box 34 File 1) Books; Characterization; Colonial period; Comparative literature; Criticism; De Senectute

File 2) Dialog writing File 3) Essays; Figures of Speech; Gesta Romanorum; Historians; Idealism;

Inventions; Journalism File 4) Lecturing; Literary Evolution; Longman's Publishing House; Magic;

Man elevator; Marie Antoinette; Masterpieces File 5) Miscellaneous File 6) Morality in Fiction and Drama; Names for characters; Negro minstrel

song; Niagara Falls; Non-Americans; Novel

Box 35 File 1) Orators; Plagiarism; Poems; Puppets File 2-3) Quotations File 4) Revolutionary Period; Romances

File 5) Short Story File 6) Spelling; Style; Titles; Transcendentalism; War File 7) Writing

--Drama files

Box 35 File 8) Drama

Box 36 File 1) American Drama File 2) Acting; Actor's memories; Acts; Audience File 3) Conventions File 4) Criticism, Development of File 5) Failures File 6) Fiction; Folk theater; Greek Comedy File 7) Greek Drama File 8-9) Indexes [Very brittle, request assistance] File 10) Italy File 11) Medieval Theater

Box 37 File 1) Morality plays File File 2) Nineteenth Century Drama File File 3) One-act play; Political play; Pantomime; Repertory

theater File 4) Renewal of Drama File File 5) Roman Drama File File 6) Spanish Drama File File 7) Scene painting File File 8) Stage design; Stage life; Stage management; Stroller and

farces; Survivals File File 9) Words and phrases of the theater

Flatbox 233 Scrapbook on playwrights, 1903-1910. 1 volume

Works by Others, 1879-1923 5 linear feet

This series contains articles, manuscripts, poetry, essays, and autographs by other authors.

Box 38 File 2) John Kendrick BangsJoseph M. BeattyEdward Hamilton BellRobert BridgesHenry Cuyler Bunner

File 3) Andrew CarnegieSamuel Clemons (Mark Twain)Thomas Stephens CollierAustin DobsonJohn Erskine

File 4) Emile FaguetJoseph Smith FletcherRichard Watson GilderArthur GoodrichFerris GreenslettJames Ketelas HackettThomas Wentworth HigginsonWilliam Dean Howells

Philip Curtis HumphreyThomas Hutchinson

File 5) George Henry JessopHenry Arthur JonesAndrew Lang

File 6) George Parsons LathropGeorge Henry Lewes

File 7) Don Marquis

Flatbox 234 Dobson, Austin. At the Sign of the Lyre. New York:Henry Holt, 18851 Volume [Ms.]

Box 39 File 1) M. L. MayerLillian NordicaThomas Buchanan ReadRobert Francis St. Clair RosslynJohn William RogersFrank Dempster Sherman; Monroe SmithNichol SmithAshley Horace Thorndike

Personal files, 1827-1962 2 linear feet.

This series contains photographs, menus, ticket stubs, club rosters, scrapbooks, and other Matthews memorabilia. It includes items Matthews used to refresh his memory when writing his autobiography These Many Years. There are also research notes from a 1961-1962 study by Herbert Kleinfeld.

Box 39 File 2) Memorabilia used in These Many Years File File 3) Bibliography; dedication of bust; eulogy in 1929 by

George Clinton Odell File File 4) Photographs and drawings of Brander Matthews File File 5) Bookplate [see also Box 41: woodblock of bookplate] File 6)

Prints and picturesFile 7) Ada Smith Matthews [stage name Ada Harland],

photographs and playbill File 8) Theater tickets, 1905-1910 File 9-10) Clubs: rosters and membership form from the

Atheneum Club and the Round Table DiningClub; Dunlap Society membership letters

See also X812M43/P53, Diaries, 1871-1994. Diaryportions have been removed from 1871-1881; and812M43/S, Journal begun December 21, 1928

Box 40 File 1) American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1910-1916 File 2) Menus, 1885-1907 and greeting cards

See also Scrapbooks X812M43/BS and X812M43/BC. Both contain menus, letters, invitations, and autographs dating from 1884-1907

File 3-5) Herbert Kleinfeld research notes

Box 41 Mementos [n.d.]: 1 Loving cup and 1 woodblock ofbookplate

Scrapbooks

Flatbox 233 # 1: Robert Bright, May 29, 1875. 1 volume

Flatbox 233 # 2: Theatrical Notes. 1 volume

Flatbox 233 # 3: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re. Brander Matthews, 1869-1926. 1 volume

Flatbox 234 # 4: Clippings scrapbook, obituaries and reminiscences, 19291 volume

Flatbox 234 # 5: Theater Scrapbook, 1923-1925. 1 volume